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Re: Lost my key..

To: Amar Cosic <amar.cosic@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Lost my key..
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:54:24 -0700
Cc: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
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On 08/20/11 15:24, Amar Cosic wrote:
> Well I managed to lose my tarsnap key.. Bad thing(s) hapend with my
> server and key was not backuped. I have my username/password of Tarsnap
> account so Is there any chance to re-create key and continue with
> backups on new server ?

If you've lost your keys, your backups are inaccessible.

You can create a new key and use that to create new backups, but without your
old keys there's no way to decrypt your old backups.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

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